Project Examples
Providing minerals services to the exploration and mining industry, and government regulatory agencies.
New Zealand Projects:
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prospectivity studies on orogenic gold deposits and epithermal gold deposits, more info....
- working with local government to incorporate information on minerals into regional and district policies and plans, more info....
- assessment of offshore iron-sand potential.
- GIS synthesis of geological and exploration data
- national and regional mineral resource assessments
- hazard assessment of abandoned underground workings at Waihi
- structural mapping of orogenic gold deposits
- mineralogy and chemistry of natural zeolites
- appraisal of exploration data and programmes for gold-silver prospects, Coromandel Peninsula
- assessment of ceramic clay deposits
- assessment of the mineral resources of the Taranaki region
- mineral commodity reports
- provision of digital data from our mineral occurrence database
- fluid inclusion and stable isotope analyses
- ore petrography including SEM
- identification of concrete aggregate quality and deleterious properties (Taranaki)
- resistivity surveys
- slope stability studies of pit walls
- monitoring of environmental remediation work (Coromandel)
- plume reconnaissance work in Havre Trough
- field and lecture based short courses
Overseas Projects:
- mineralogy and chemistry of natural zeolites ( Malaysia)
- assessment of the precious and base metal prospectivity of the Jinniu Volcanic Basin, Hubei Province, China
- assessment of ceramic clay deposits (north Asia)
- fluid inclusion and stable isotope analyses (Japan and Canada)
- ore petrography including SEM ( Sardinia)
- exploration review of a major epithermal gold field (Australia)